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River Irk polluted by sewage 640 times in 2025 - lasting 1,800 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Irk in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Irk ROCHDALE RD/COLLYHURST 92 415 99.8
United Utilities River Irk ROYTON SETTLED STORM OVERFLOW 34 329 92.3
United Utilities River Irk BOOTHROYDEN ROAD CSO 90 279 98.5
United Utilities River Irk MOSTON LANE/ROCHDALE ROAD CSO 59 209 99.9
United Utilities River Irk MIDDLETON MAIN OUTFALL 67 163 99.9
United Utilities River Irk WOOD STREET CSO 58 126 93.1
United Utilities River Irk MIDDLETON OLD ROAD CSO 41 102 100
United Utilities River Irk WATERLOO ST CRESCENT RD CSO 18 37 99.9
United Utilities River Irk ASPIN LANE CSO 281CJ 50 35 99.8
United Utilities River Irk CLEVELAND RD DELAUNAY RD CSO 288NJ 31 15 99.9
United Utilities River Irk SOUTH OF BLACKLEY NEW ROAD CSO 17 14 91.7
United Utilities River Irk MIDDLETON ROAD/VICTORIA AVENUE CSO 4 13 99.7
United Utilities River Irk SPRING VALE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 9 13 97.5
United Utilities River Irk SMEDLEY ROAD CSO 12 10 96.4
United Utilities River Irk VICTORIA AVENUE/RIVER IRK CSO 4 10 100
United Utilities River Irk MILLER STREET/CORPORATION ST CSO 14 5 57.6
United Utilities River Irk FIR LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 4 4 99.5
United Utilities River Irk QUEENS RD/HARDHAM VALE CSO 3 4 98.7
United Utilities River Irk CLEVELAND RD DELAUNEYS RD CSO 281KK 8 2 100
United Utilities River Irk MANCHESTER OLD ROAD CSO 3 1 100
United Utilities River Irk SOUTH OF BLACKLEY NEW ROAD CSO 3 1 99.4
United Utilities River Irk DANTZIC STREET CSO 1 0 97
United Utilities River Irk ROCHDALE RD/ALFRED ST CSO 5 0 91.9
United Utilities River Irk GLENBROOK RD EXTER RD CSO 281VU 7 0 91.7
United Utilities River Irk CENTRAL AVENUE CSO 2 0 72.9
United Utilities River Irk BURTON ST NR DALTON ST CSO 281HX 2 0 99.8
United Utilities River Irk DEXTER RD HEATON PARK RD CSO 1 0 100
United Utilities River Irk VERDON STREET/SCOTLAND CSO 1 0 90.6
United Utilities River Irk HENDHAM VALE CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities River Irk KENYON LANE CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities River Irk KINGSBRIDGE ROAD CSO (289BQ) 0 0 64.8
United Utilities River Irk SOUTH OF BLACKLEY NEW ROAD CSO 0 0 98
United Utilities River Irk BROMLEY STREET CSO 281MT 0 0 92.8
United Utilities River Irk DANTZIC ST WARFORD ST CSO 288A7 0 0 99.8
United Utilities River Irk HUNTS BANK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 99.4
United Utilities River Irk LONG MILLGATE CSO 0 0 100

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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